Mickey Mouse Goofy remarks on questions that stump you?
Ancient People did not have terms such as:
Comets
Diamonds
Asteroids
Milky Way
Kool-Aid
Crystal Clear
But we learned from what those terms mean in today's culture. Some might be lost in translation but we have learned from Hebrew and Greek translations
Why don't you free your mind so your brain will follow?
2007-10-04 08:40:22 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
But none of the things you mentioned, save the diamonds, are ever referenced in any holy text. You could accurately describe all of them with a very basic vocabulary.
Some questions may stump me, but yours never do. Anyway, saying 'I don't know' violates the Yahoo! TOS.
2007-10-04 08:45:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 2⤋
I assume you are addressing the argument that the bible is not a credible literary piece due to the many language translations. It would be helpful to explain your argument more in the future.
You also didn't point out why the language translation doesn't affect the credibility of the bible, leading me to believe you just gave everyone a Mickey Mouse Goofy remark.
2007-10-04 08:49:53 · answer #2 · answered by cheezbawl2003 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I never have a problem saying I do not know. It is amazing the answers that theists always come up with, like: "God must have provided" - when questioning where all the food came from for the ark, to "All part of God's plan" - if he has a plan, and he knows all, then we do not have free will, since he will ensure his plan works or else he is not all powerful.
So try freeing your mind and realize that you believe in a fairytale. Some imaginary creature in the sky, who nobody has ever seen, talked to, etc. People throughout history (including in the Bible) have claimed to have talked to God, but amazingly in today's world, that is always diagnosed as being schizophrenia. Realize that you are believing in something that they did back when they thought earthquakes was God getting mad and that the earth was flat and the earth was the centre of the Universe. So I guess you might as well think that earthquakes are that and the earth is flat, etc, since you also believe everything they told you in their "holy" books. Free your mind and get away from the brainwashing of religion, it is a great experience and so welcoming to be able to think for yourself, unlike theists.
2007-10-04 08:55:19 · answer #3 · answered by disturbed001500 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'm an atheist, and any time I don't know the answer to a question, I say I don't know. If I find the question interesting, I'll try and find out.
For example, if you were to ask me about evolution, and your question was not one of the bog standard, self evidently stupid questions that creationists tend to ask (smarmy bastards the lot of 'em) chances are I wouldn't know the answer, because I'm not a biologist. Tho' I do have a better working knowledge than most laymen.
So, I wouldn't be able to answer the question immediately, but I'd know the answer within 24 hours, because I'd look it up.
2007-10-04 09:08:55 · answer #4 · answered by Scumspawn 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I myself being agnostic base my belief (or lack thereof) on the phrase "I don't know the answer" but however, I do notice that more religious people are less inclined to say such a thing than an Atheist. The religious have the ultimate scapegoat, where an atheist has to give explanation, a Christian needs only to utter 3 words. "God did it."
2007-10-04 08:48:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Um, wrong.
Tey did have terms for comets, diamonds and crystal clear and the Milky Way.
They may have been in a different form than they are today but ancient astonomers knew that comets were not stars. They could see the milky way, they just did not know what it was. They would have recognised different gem stones and have known the properties of diamond, and they would have had a way of describing something very translucent - probably clear as water as most crystals would not have been particularly clear.
Kool-Aid - Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
No, I will give you that. the ancient people did not have a name for a drink invented in the 1920s made up of sugar, flavors derived from oil and colours derived from oil.
But then, who claimed that they did?
2007-10-04 08:53:46 · answer #6 · answered by Simon T 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My mind is free and so is yours ,in ancient times they thought all acts of nature were acts of God,maybe they are right who knows? And i don't think anything was lost in translation only in interpretation of all those wise old religious texts.
2007-10-04 09:11:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did you ever consider the fact that stupid questions deserve stupid answers? And the ancients did have terms for celestial objects, just not the ones YOU use. as for kool-aid and crystal clear(which I assume is an American junk food, they weren't invented until a few years ago. Now who's the moron?
2007-10-04 08:48:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
because the answers are based on fiction. Therefore your "correct" answer makes as much sense as our "mickey mouse goofy remarks"
2007-10-04 08:46:19 · answer #9 · answered by mitchellinho 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
OK. I will admit I don't know the answer to why I don't "free my mind so my brain will follow"? What on earth does that mean? Did you read it as you typed it? I also don't know why you can't compose a literate question.
2007-10-04 08:44:37 · answer #10 · answered by Milepost 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋